The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-04
CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July %. 1887

f1EkALDs
This is time when statesmen are gener-
ally idle and house flies and the thermome-
ter most active and affairs wear a dull as
pect, the dog days being at hand still. the
political world is not entirely stagnant, for
the eyes of republicans everywhere are
turned towards OHIO, in whose convention
national issues are to some extent involved,
especially as regards, the Presidential aspira-
lions OF Senator Sherman. who manfully
stakes his political future upon its action.
These thoughts naturally brirg me to the
consideration of subject now occupying the
attention of reading aud thinking republic
cans at Washington, as well as elsewhere in
the United States, 1 allude to the able inter-
esting paper of Governor Foraker, of Ohio
contributed to the August number of 1.-THE
Forum" on that vital question, ''The return
Of the Republican Party" in which the
great issues of the day are forcibly and
cogently presented. The Governor writes
like reasoner and a statesman, showing
that the two important and overshadowiug
questions of the day, from a republican and
patriotic standpoint. are the suppressed
cclored vote Of the South, and the protec-
tive tariff. neither of which can ever pos.
sibly have proper treatment at the hands
of the reactionary democracy. One OF the
most striking and convincing of Governor
Foraker's arguments is when the shows
that Georgia, cast only $4,000, votes for ten
member of congress, while the number in
Ohio, not more populous than Georgia, was
upon q total vote of 800 900 for ten congress
men. And upon this basis he deduced the
proposition that the South robbed Blaine and
Logan of 3S electoral votes, defeating them
and fraud ulently electing Governor Cleve-
land. The Governor gives facts and figures
to prove the ruinous policy of free trade,
as 1t worked under a Democratic Adminis-
ration, In 1860 and prior thereto, and the
benefits derived subsequent to that period
from the neutrality-suspicious. doctrine of
protection to American Industries and in.
terests. Your correspondent is by no means
alone in surmising that Ohio's young
Governor may develop into promising
dark horse-another Garfield as IL were in
the next National Republican Convention.
A report of the mi neral resources of the
United States for the calendar year 1886,
Son to be issued by the Geological Survey,
will show that the mineral industries of
that year were generally characterized by
both an incsease Of value and of production
pig iron taking the lead of all others being
an advance in price of seventy-ive cents
per ton.
Another report of general interest is that
of the Bureau Of Statistics in regard to i'm
migration and exports and imports, for the
fiscal year ending June 30th, 1887. Exports,
OF Merchandise, s7l6,7O4, 1884, imports $500, $780,
95l; excess of exports, s2l4, 445, 733; gold ex-
ported &c. .ls7; imported, 81, Jos 90l excess
of imports, $Ss, 267 ia; silver exported, S26,
296,5O4; imported. $780, 9l; excess of ex-
ports, S9,036 .3ls otal immigration, 3s3, l16.
Several Indian Chiefs called on the Presi.
dent this week to request his aid in per
feeting the title OF the tribe to certain lands
the custom a number of years, one of these.
chiefs, who is known as "the white mans
friend, from his efforts to prevent war was
presented peace medal by the Secretary of
the Interior.
The annual report Of the commissioner of
internal revenue, shows an increased pro-
duction OF malt liquors, cigars, snuff, and
tobacco, and a decreased production of dis
titled spirits, which latter fact Will be very
gratifying to our prohibition friends. The
total revenue collections from all sources
were Sis, 757 being small increase over
the previous year.
The interstate commission has made the
important and interesting decision that
drumners are not entitled to reduced rates
on the railroads, but must pay regular fare,
the same as others, which action viii be to
the decided disadvantage OF the consumer of
goods, who in the very nature of things,
must finally bear the expense of increased
transportation, while the railroads reap tn g
only benefit, on this item their rece ipts will
be largely augmented.
Hundreds of the clerks of the Adjutant
Generals Office are spending those sultry.
sweltering days in undergoing the ordeal of
the civil service mill, for alleged promotion
to vacancies that do not exist, and which
they may never have an opportunity to fill
no matter how good an examination they
pass. such a travesty on the civil service
reform is worthy of the hypocritical party
of so-called reforms who champion such
fooiishness only for a covert parpose.
A mass meeting of the chivalry of Manas
sas has brought to light four new affidavits
In the Todd case, which they claim were ig-
nored in the trial at Washington, where
DR.. Sunderland the Presidents pastor. de-
Tended the accused minister, and this meet
Ing denouDces Rev Mr.. Todd, as "a moral
nuisance, and notifies him that he had bet.
ter leave Manassas for Its hood and his own,